{"id":253,"date":"2016-05-27T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:43:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:43:56","slug":"proof-that-we-actually-exis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Proof that We Actually Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/26793026931\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"2016 Mills College 08\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7440\/26793026931_e197a6913f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"2016 Mills College 08\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>AF and I met up the other day at our grad school alma mater, Mills College, to speak to the graduate and undergraduate writers in Kathryn Reiss&#8217;s YA writing course. It was a lot of fun, but it was an afternoon class, and it was a fairly warm afternoon. We were FAR more lively\/hopped up on caffeine than the students, and I think we might have scared them the tiniest little bit. Ah, well.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s nothing like doing a classroom visit with someone else! Our ideas sparked off of each other, and I think we were pretty much quadruple the entertainment for the money. Photographers came by, too, which &#8230; is also kind of funny; we&#8217;re apparently going to be part of the school&#8217;s PR for &#8220;Authors Occasionally Come And Visit! Try Our School!&#8221; It&#8217;s all good, though; we&#8217;re happy to help, and hope others are encouraged to get their MFA or at least take a few writing classes.<br \/>\nStay tuned for more random reviews, bits and pieces of this and that, and eventually another tandem review. When we can settle on a book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AF and I met up the other day at our grad school alma mater, Mills College, to speak to the graduate and undergraduate writers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,15,67],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-tsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8945,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}